Ricardo Braginski
05/24/2021 21:24
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/24/2021 9:24 PM
The three days without classes proposed by the Buenos Aires government were not even fulfilled and
a new conflict between the Nation and the City
around the schools
is anticipated
.
The question now is
what will happen in the capital's classrooms as of Monday 31
, when the term of the current hard confinement expires.
On Thursday, the Larreta administration had announced that the district's schools
will not give face-to-face or virtual classes
this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and that they will make up those days in December. It is the only jurisdiction that went
the way of changing the school calendar
. The rest chose to teach at a distance. Since then, the Minister of National Education Nicolás Trotta has been adding statements
with very harsh criticisms of this measure
.
As explained by Soledad Acuña, Buenos Aires Minister of Education,
Clarín
's decision to interrupt classes in the district was due to
prioritizing presence
. “We verified that it
results in better learning
and since the measure is only for three days, the calendar could be adjusted.
We prefer to buy time than face-to-face
and not spend those days in virtuality. We think that what has to be learned has to be the same for everyone and it is not the same if it becomes virtual and some can do more than others, "Acuña told this newspaper.
He also affirmed that it had been agreed with the Nation that
from the 31st everything returns to the way it was before
, that is,
with the schools open in the district
.
“The current DNU is for a short period.
With a start and end date,
”he said.
Trotta called the decision
"political speculation."
He said that it is
"irresponsible" to
affirm that the face-to-face classes will return on the 31st. high risk, "he said.
In the background is the same discussion that Nation and City have been having since 2021 began and
ended in the Supreme Court of Justice
. For the Nation, everything must be guided by
the epidemiological traffic light
that governs the DNU of the restrictions that are in place. There the City appears within the districts
in "epidemiological alert"
and then they have to close the schools and move on to distance education.
From the City, on the other hand, they affirm that
the jurisdictions have autonomy to define their educational decisions
. On the other hand, they exhibit various statistics that show that
schools are not contagious
. The last one is a cut to May 19, in which it is seen that the number of people who went to schools since February 17 and were infected was three times less than those who did not go to schools. Of those who were infected, 89% said they were infected outside of school. The Court agreed with the position of the City.
Trotta continues to insist that all districts with a red light have to close the doors to presence until that color changes.
To make his voice more heard, the minister met this Saturday with his peers from the 24 jurisdictions in the Federal Council of Education.
"23 jurisdictions hold distance classes in the departments that had to suspend attendance," was the title of the statement that came out of the Palace on Pizzurno Street, with a clear criticism of the City.
"The City is the only jurisdiction that has made the decision to suspend classes without
guaranteeing distance education instances and suspending the delivery of food modules,
" they wrote.
“We did not suspend the school basket, we postponed it for three days, because logically if you take a measure so that there is no circulation in the street, taking into account that 98% of the students who go to the state school have some type of food grant, many were going to mobilize. They do not want the boys to have classes at school, but they do want
people to mobilize and crowd at the door
to look for the basket ”, they said from the City.